A group of native plant enthusiasts transformed a wasted space at a local park into a gorgeous multipurpose garden. It's ...

Despite their showy yellow flowers, goldenrods aren't the culprit for seasonal allergies. The inconspicuous ragweed plants reaching 10 feet tall spread pollen widely by wind.

Lake Metroparks has been working in recent years to add new meadow plantings to a few of its parks, intending to support local wildlife while also giving visitors something new to see. At ...

It takes more than flower nectar to attract butterflies to your garden. Learn the truth about common butterfly host plant myths.

When summer rolls around, this decreasingly young man’s fancy inevitably turns to bugs. This mainly means butterflies here in mid-July, followed by the many ticks crawling up my legs after a day in ...

Sweat covers Isaac Barnes’s face under his beekeeper’s veil as he hauls boxes of honeycomb from his hives to his truck. It's ...

But more common is what de Roode calls “animal medication ... For instance, ­parasite-infected monarch butterfly moms lay their eggs on more medicinally powerful milkweed species, so their offspring ...

Things are changing—some quickly and some with glacial slowness—at Crossroads at Big Creek, and this week our programs will reflect on some of ...

Imagine a prairie. How many plant species do you see? Maybe you're picturing yellow coneflowers, some little bluestem, ...

Extreme rainfall and flooding are becoming more common across much of the U.S. In Iowa, some farmers are experimenting with something called relay intercropping to keep more rainfall in the fields.